Theme:
Neuropsychological tests
Options:
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A Cognitive Estimates Test
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B Digit span
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C Go - No Go test
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D Mini Mental State Examination
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E National Adult Reading Test
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F Raven’s progressive matrices
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G Rivermead Behavioural Memory Test
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H Stroop test
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I Wechsler Memory Scale
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J Wisconsin Card Sorting Test
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Lead in:A 54 year man presents with a
year’s history of steadily progressive personality change. He has
become increasingly apathetic and appears depressed but his main
complaint is of increasing frontal headaches. On examination he has
word finding difficulties. EEG shows frontal slowing, greater on
the left.
21) You are concerned that he may have an intracranial space
occupying lesion.
Which test would you use to obtain a quick estimate of his
current performance IQ?
22) The test indicates that his current performance IQ is in the
low average range.
Which test would enable you to estimate his premorbid IQ,
ie. his IQ before any brain damage he may have sustained in recent
months / years?
23) The estimate of his premorbid IQ is 15 points higher than
his current performance IQ. It is recommended that he has a full
WAIS IQ assessment to measure both performance and verbal IQ. On
the WAIS his verbal IQ is found to be impaired over and above his
performance IQ.
Which test is part of the WAIS verbal subtests?
24) An MRI scan shows a large meningioma compressing
dorsolateral prefrontal cortex on the left.
Which test result is most likely to be impaired?
Answers:
21 - F
22 - E
23 - B
24 - J
Theme:Aetiology
Options:
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A Alcohol
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B Childhood sexual abuse
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C Diabetes
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D Having given birth 6 months previously
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E Impaired hearing
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F Loss of mother before age 14
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G Peri-natal hypoxia
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H Reduced visual acuity
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I Regular use of NSAIDs
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J Smoking
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Lead in:Which of the above risk factors is
most strongly associated with the following:
33) A young man with mood-incongruent auditory hallucinations,
complex delusions and social withdrawal.
34) A young woman with mood-congruent delusions, auditory
hallucinations and depressed mood.
35) An older woman with first onset of both somatic and auditory
hallucinations and delusions.
36) A cognitively intact older man with visual
hallucinations.
Answers:
33 - G
34 - D
35 - E
36 - H
Theme:Disorders of
perception
Options:
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A Completion illusion
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B Delusional perception
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C Dysmegalopsia
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D Extracampine hallucination
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E Functional hallucination
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F Haptic hallucination
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G Hygric hallucination
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H Pareidolic illusion
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I Reflex hallucination
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J Synaesthesia
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Lead in:Which of the above descriptive
psychopathological terms refers to the following symptoms?
37) "I hear the voice of my long dead father, as if he were
talking to me now, when I hear water running from the bath
tap."
38) "I hear the voice of my father speaking to me from the other
side of the city".
39) A young woman describes looking up into the clouds and
seeing an image of her fiancé.
40) A 22 year old woman with schizophrenia describes the
sensation that somebody is touching her body in intimate
places.
Answers:
37 - E
38 - D
39 - H
40 - F